This paper introduces a Balanced Usability Checklist (BUC) approach to assess the usability of ten Palestinian hotel websites. The BUC is a modified version of the known checklist analysis technique of user interfaces and ...

This study examines the role that the bicultural identity of members of an ethnic diaspora (the Indian diaspora in Canada and the United States) can play in affecting the level of economic engagement between their country ...

Using a sample of 243 undergraduate business students assigned to 71 virtual teams, this study explored the relationships between the Big Five personality factors, leader emergence, team trustworthiness, peer rated member ...

Given traditional agency theory assumptions and unobservable effort in a single-period setting, a moral hazard arises in which the agent is expected to shirk and provide the minimal possible effort after contracting with ...

The increasing geopolitical importance and rapid economic growth that characterize most of the South Asian region mean these diasporas are becoming progressively more important in driving economic and political ties between ...

New venture growth is a central topic in entrepreneurship research. Although sales growth is emerging as the most commonly used measure of growth for emerging ventures, employment growth has also been used frequently. ...

Chinese outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) remained largely insignificant until 2004, and Chinese multinationals were rarely heard about in the news. Yet, China’s OFDI flow in 2010 amounted to more than $60 billion ...

Purpose - Public smoking bans are becoming more prevalent, but not without controversy. Consumer attitudes about the effectiveness of service provider imposed smoking/nonsmoking separation have changed. Arguments against ...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate interactions among members of self-managed teams (SMTs). The authors were interested in how leader emergence, group potency, and opinion compliance were related to team ...

Hedonic models measure the impact that various physical characteristics have on the sale price of a home. Due to data limitations, however, these models usually do not take into account the number of homes on the market ...

I study the impact of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy and resultant inability to honor its obligations as a lender under committed credit lines. Firms that lost access to a credit line committed by Lehman Brothers experienced ...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a method soundly based in theory by which costs of meeting the most restrictive reserve requirements prescribed by the Federal Reserve may be approximated by the use of readily ...

Using institutional theory and a business model perspective, we develop a framework and use content analysis of company Web sites to examine differences in customer value propositions among a sample of high-growth firms ...

This paper estimates a nightly demand model for National Hockey League attendance for five teams from different divisions. The magnitudes of the coefficients are compared for each team to determine if factorsthat influence ...

We use the Indian diaspora in Canada and the United States to explore the effect that host-country acculturation policies can have on the attitudes that immigrants hold toward the home and host countries, and how these ...

Previous studies have presented findings suggesting that the gold standard may have led to an increase in business cycle synchronization among its member countries. This follows a growing literature which posits that ...

It is not unusual for baseball general managers (GMs) to have network ties to their potential trading partners, either to the other teams' GMs or to the teams themselves. This article investigates whether these connections ...

College football recruits choose their schools partly for the opportunity to play for a specific coach. It is not unusual for the coach who recruited the player to leave before the end of the player’s career. This article ...